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Pierre Denys de Montfort
Pierre Denys de Montfort (Denys-Montfort, c.1768-1820/21), French naturalist and conchologist, author of Histoire naturelle des Mollusques (1802-1805) and Conchyliologie systématique (1808-1810), and proponent of the mythical colossal octopus.
Pierre Draps Sr.
Pierre Draps Sr. was a Belgian chocolatier who in 1926 began making chocolate pralines in a small atelier in his Brussels home, the business that became Godiva.
Pierre Ducimetière
Pierre Ducimetière (1942–2026) was a French cardiovascular epidemiologist at Inserm, called the father of French cardiovascular epidemiology, who led the Paris Prospective Study and published landmark coronary heart disease research.
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861–1916) was a French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science at Bordeaux, known for the Gibbs–Duhem equation and the Duhem–Quine thesis.
Pierre Dumesnil
Pierre Dumesnil, sporting name of Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil (born 10 December 1931), French breaststroke swimmer of Racing Club de France, 17th in the 200 m breaststroke at Helsinki 1952 and member of two 1953 French 4x100 medley relay world-record teams; later a chess organizer in Gran Canaria. Distinct from the Rouen printer Pierre Dumesnil (1776-1835).
Pierre Dupont de l'Étang
Pierre-Antoine Dupont de l'Étang (1765–1840), French general and count of the Empire, defeated and captured at Bailén in 1808, later Minister of War and deputy for Charente.
Pierre Durand
Pierre Durand (born 1955), French show jumper; Olympic individual gold and team bronze at Seoul 1988 on Jappeloup de Luze; European champion 1987; FFE president 1993–1998; distinct from the 1931-born general who won 1960 eventing bronze.
Pierre Ecrite
Pierre Ecrite (peira escricha) is a 5th-century Gallo-Roman rock inscription at Saint-Geniez, France, recording Claudius Postumus Dardanus, praetorian prefect of the Gauls, and his lost city Theopolis; classified Monument historique in 1909.
Pierre Emmanuel
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël-Jean Mathieu (1916–1984), was a French poet of Christian inspiration whose Resistance verse was learned by heart; he joined the Académie française in 1968.
Pierre Eugène Ménétrier
Pierre Eugène Ménétrier (1859–1935) was a French pathologist, surgeon, oncologist, and medical historian at Paris whose 1888 description of seven autopsy cases founded Ménétrier's disease, a rare protein-losing stomach disorder.
Pierre Fatou
Pierre Fatou (1878–1929) was a French mathematician and astronomer who spent his career at the Paris Observatory and founded the iteration theory of rational maps, now called complex dynamics.
Pierre Fenaux
Pierre Fenaux is a French hematologist and professor at Université Paris Cité who heads the seniors hematology service at Hôpital Saint-Louis and leads the Groupe Francophone des Myélodysplasies.
Pierre François Le Courayer
Pierre François Le Courayer (1681–1776) was a French Catholic theologian and canon regular of Sainte-Geneviève whose 1723 defense of Anglican ordinations led to condemnation and exile in England.
Pierre Garçon
Pierre Garcon, born 1986, is a former NFL wide receiver from West Palm Beach, Florida, of Haitian descent. Mount Union d3 pick who played for the Colts, Redskins, and 49ers, leading the NFL with 113 catches in 2013.
Pierre Gasly
Pierre Gasly (born 1996, Rouen) is a French Formula 1 driver for Alpine, car 10. 2016 GP2 champion; won the 2020 Italian GP for AlphaTauri from 10th on the grid; first French winner since Panis 1996; first pole at Monza 2026.
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, and philosopher who restored Epicurean atomism within Catholic doctrine and made the first recorded observation of a transit of Mercury.
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine is a hydrologist, the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics at Columbia University, who studies land–atmosphere coupling and machine learning for Earth systems, and directs the NSF center LEAP.
Pierre Gibault
Pierre Gibault (1737–1802) was a Catholic missionary priest of the Illinois country who in 1778 brought Vincennes over to the American side in George Rogers Clark's campaign.
Pierre Goloubinoff
Pierre Goloubinoff, born 1957 in France, is a biochemist who studies molecular chaperones, known for 1989 Nature papers on GroEL and GroES in Rubisco folding.
Pierre Golstein
Pierre Golstein, born 1939 in Paris, is a French immunologist known for discovering the CTLA-4 protein in 1987 and for work on how cytotoxic T cells kill targets.
Pierre Gönczy
Pierre Gönczy, born 1962, is a cell biologist and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne whose laboratory studies centriole assembly and asymmetric cell division in C. elegans.
Pierre Grabar
Pierre Grabar (1898–1986) was a French biochemist and immunologist, born in Kiev, who co-developed immunoelectrophoretic analysis with C. A. Williams in 1952 and spent most of his career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
Pierre Grisel
Pierre Grisel (1869–1959) was a French physician who described Grisel's syndrome in a 1930 paper, non-traumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint following throat infections or head and neck surgery.
Pierre Hadot
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010), French philosopher and historian of ancient philosophy at the Collège de France, known for interpreting ancient philosophy as a way of life built on spiritual exercises, influencing Foucault and Buddhist studies.
Pierre Hélyot
Pierre Hélyot, in religion Hippolyte Hélyot (1660–1716), was a French Franciscan religious at the Picpus monastery in Paris, author of the eight-volume illustrated Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires.
Pierre Henri Batiffol
Pierre Henri Batiffol (1861–1929) was a French Roman Catholic priest and patristics scholar who led the Institut Catholique de Toulouse until his 1907 resignation over censure of his Eucharist history.
Pierre Hohenberg
Pierre Hohenberg (1934–2017) was a French-American theoretical physicist at Bell Labs, Yale, and NYU, known for the 1964 Hohenberg–Kohn theorem on which density functional theory rests.
Pierre Houin
Pierre Houin (Pierre Albert Houin), French rower born 1994 in Toul, Olympic gold medalist in lightweight men's double sculls at Rio 2016 with Jérémie Azou; world and European champion 2017; retired 2021, now CNOSF director.
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) is a French contemporary artist working across film, living ecosystems, robotics, and AI; Hugo Boss Prize 2002, Documenta 13 Untilled, UUmwelt, Camata, Liminals.
Pierre J. Meunier
Pierre J. Meunier (1936–2016) was a French physician-scientist in rheumatology and bone disease at Lyon, known for establishing quantitative bone histomorphometry and leading landmark osteoporosis trials.